Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
This was of course because Jurassic Park was the big selling toy line in the early to mid 1990s, and Kenner was capitalising on this fad when taking the failed Transformers Generation 2 and rebooting it as Beast Wars. This is why Dinobot and Grimlock's velociraptor modes are based on the Jurassic Park raptors rather than actual raptors
Too bad the designers didn't have a choice. At the time of designing the original Optimus Primal toy, the Jurassic Park raptor look was the only scientifically accurate look. The discovery of raptors having feather wasn't until the second Jurassic Park movie.